![]() His work is sometimes associated with the Surrealists (about whom he said in a March 1961 ArtNews interview with John Ashbery, “One values less for what they wrote than for the permission they gave everybody to write whatever comes into their heads”), though he remained aloof from literary groups. ![]() Much of his writing took the form of short prose, and trips-touristic, spiritual, and drug-induced-were a favored theme. ![]() His visual art was Klee-like, proto-Lettrist. In the years that followed the publication of A Certain Plume, Michaux slowly but successfully pursued careers in both writing and painting, often melding the two. Plume is the collection’s Chaplinesque main character, a self-portrait of the author perhaps, though, as Michaux says in a “Postface:” “There is no single self. In 1930, when he’d already published an experimental memoir and an unconventional account of a trip to Ecuador, Michaux’s gallimaufry of poems, prose poetry, and drama entitled A Certain Plume came out from the Parisian avant-garde publisher Éditions de Carrefour and ensured his reputation. ![]() Like his comic book compatriot Tintin, the writer and visual artist Henri Michaux (1899-1984) grew up in Belgium, traveled the world, and finally settled in France. ![]()
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